stingray

stingray

English

Ocellate river stingray (Potamotrygon motoro)

Etymology

sting +‎ ray

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɪŋˌɹeɪ/

Noun

stingray (plural stingrays)

1. Any of various large, venomous rays, of the orders Rajiformes and Myliobatiformes, having a barbed, whiplike tail.

   Synonym: stingaree

2. (US law enforcement) A device that simulates a cell tower, used to intercept cell phone communications.

   Synonym: IMSI catcher

   • 2014, Catherine Nolan; Ashley M. Wilson, JD, The Audacity to Spy: How Government, Business, and Hackers Rob Us of Privacy, Technics Publications, →ISBN, page 74:

     The device mimics a cell phone tower and gets the phone to connect to it. […] Once a signal is found, the stingray measures its strength and can provide a general location on the map.

Translations

venomous ray of the orders Rajiformes and Myliobatiformes

Arabic: سَمَكَة رَاي لَاسِع‎ f (samakat rāy lāsiʿ), سْتِينْغْرَي‎ m (stīnḡray) Breton: dasyatis Catalan: dasyatis Chinese: Cantonese: please add this translation if you can Hakka: please add this translation if you can Mandarin: 魟魚／𫚉鱼 (zh) (hóngyú), 黃貂魚／黄貂鱼 (zh) (huángdiāoyú) Min Nan: please add this translation if you can Czech: rejnok (cs) Danish: pilrokke Esperanto: rajo Estonian: astelrai Faroese: stingskøta f Finnish: suurrausku, keihäsrauskut French: raie à aiguillon (fr) f, pastenague (fr) f Galician: estinga f, raia estriga f, uxa f Georgian: სკაროსი (sḳarosi) German: Stachelrochen m Greek: Ancient: νάρκη f (nárkē) Hungarian: tüskésrájafélék, mérges rája Icelandic: stingskötur f Indonesian: ikan pari (id) Iranun: pagi Irish: roc ga nimhe m Italian: razza (it) f, pastinaca (it) f Japanese: 赤鱝, 赤鱏 (アカエイ, akaei) Korean: 가오리 (ko) (gaori) Lao: please add this translation if you can Latin: trȳgōn m, žutuga f Malay: ikan pari Maori: whai Norman: têgrêsse f, raie à didget f Norwegian: Bokmål: piggrokke (no) m or f Portuguese: arraia/raia venenosa f Pukapukan: wai Russian: хвостоко́л (ru) m (xvostokól), морско́й кот (ru) m (morskój kot) , скат (ru) m (skat) Serbo-Croatian: Latin: žutulja (sh) f Spanish: pastinaca (es) f Swedish: spjutrockor Tagalog: pagi Tamil: please add this translation if you can Thai: ปลากระเบนธง (bplaa grà bayn tong) Turkish: vatoz (tr) Vietnamese: cá đuối ó

See also

• (cell phone): IMSI

Further reading

• stingray on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• straying